Waking Up, Wanting to go to Work

How do you wake up and want to go to work? There are a lot of answers to that. Here are mine:

- Today we gathered up a bunch of people, went into a conference room and called a colleague in a remote office. As soon as he picked up, we all started singing Happy Birthday. Just our small way of wishing him well on his birthday.

- Over the Thanksgiving holiday, while I was away in Cairo, Egypt, a colleague turned my desk into a fort. It says, "Andrew's Fortress," has dragons and even a moat.


- People commonly gather around a desk and watch insane YouTube videos.

- We have a creative director that runs a coffee blog and has replaced our burnt Starbucks coffee with smooth, tasty Intelligentsia coffee.

- Our live guy tells the funniest stories on the planet. Last night, on a date, his table caught on fire at a very fancy place. He ended up standing on the table, trying to stomp out the flames. The guy just can't catch a break.

- I traverse the office on a razor scooter.

- Sometimes, the candy jar at Mike's desk is stuffed full of real, adult-sized candy bars.

- The whiteboard in the hallway shows off some "great" works of art.

- Silly String happens:


But, honestly, the thing that makes me want to come to work everyday, more than anything else: Megan, Candice, DZ, Nigel, Jared, Brian, Brian, Brian, Darren, Mike, Elizabeth, David, John, Max, Steven, Leonid, Fred, Ken, Larry, Ike, Michael, Jackie, Laura and even Guy. And, back in the day, Matt, Jeremy, Aqueelah, Dennis, Andy, Mark, Beth, Steven, Mac, Joe, Frank, Dee, Missy, Dan, Andrei, Dave and many others.

I'll miss you, FeedRoom.